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- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
theories blaming managers for the nation's economic malaise. The ideas stuck, and managers became, and remain, "hired hands" reduced to working for stockholders — and their own financial self-interest — at the expense of all other... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
everything from the quality of patient care to a hospital’s bottom line. “Health care executives pay close attention to how nursing time is being utilized. They strive for efficiency in fear of finding themselves in troublesome financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
’92) took a cautious view of the current fiscal year, noting the dramatic economic decline that began last fall. “Given the exposure of the HBS business model to the economic environment, our operational and financial plans for fiscal... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
"South Africans expect a lot from the president," says Meyer, a recent graduate of the School's Senior Executive Programme for Southern Africa (SEP). "They are looking for the presidency to improve day-to-day living conditions." Meyer's Pretoria office oversees all... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
Jeffrey Madrick (MBA '71) has for many years been an award-winning economics and financial writer and editor in both print (Business Week, Money) and broadcast (NBC, ESPN) journalism. The author of, most recently, The End of Affluence... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
in a race against time, working for the underground agency IA3. When a child-trafficking ring is exposed, the IA3 team enlists the CIA’s aid with local police services in a dangerous mission to unearth the ring-leaders. But the team’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
MBA courses on Investment Management and Capital Markets. Later in the decade, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford Foundation, returning in 1979. Back at HBS, Light... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
face-to-face with customers, competitors, and new technologies — quickly and efficiently. In the airline industry, for example, computer technology has fundamentally changed how service is delivered, as well as how decisions are made,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
organizations to render aid. If any of our alumni are looking to connect with one another, we recommend using the Alumni Directory together with the secure Alumni Messaging Service to communicate (click on the envelope icon on any alumni... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
GADIESH: To reap private equity returns, act more like a private equity manager COURTESY OF BAIN & CO A recent Harvard Business Review article headlined “If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business” gave many leaders of public companies a thoughtful pause: Why can’t we... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
her community. New Priorities, New Skills Forced layoffs often cause women to reevaluate their priorities, and severance pay can ease the financial burden, allowing them time to figure out what they want to do. But even without such... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
service especially needed given the isolation caused by the pandemic. After two decades in the senior housing industry, which included overseeing a multibillion-dollar portfolio for a REIT, Oppenheim developed a vitality framework built... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
through a community service mentoring project. At first, O'Neill took his young charge to a succession of museums and sporting events in an attempt to show him a reality outside his troubled neighborhood and family life. "After some weeks... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
actually on the HBS website and I called the headhunter and I said, "I really want to interview for this job." Sodexo's a food service company principally. I was in financial services, and the headhunter... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
"I tend to think that small and focused is the name of the game," agrees Matthew R. Simmons (MBA '67), president and chairman of Simmons & Company International. Established in 1974 as a specialized investment bank to the oil service... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
sales and distribution operations to service the needs of large mass accounts. After considerable restructuring in 2002, Neurosmith was delighted when Target agreed to distribute its products and launch them in the fall of 2003. “For a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program
the new program — before arriving on campus. “No other business school offers anything similar,” says Dee Leopold (MBA ’80), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. “This is a bold program that is trying to do three things:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
opening a hospital. “I didn’t want to get into real estate,” he says. “I wanted to get into a service business.” Perhaps even more appealingly, dentistry did not depend on referrals from other doctors, which... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 28 Oct 2013
- News
The Federator
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